Explore statues honoring early settlers in the Old West
Interstate 35
Nearly one-quarter of the United States pioneer monuments are located along the Interstate 35 corridor stretching from San Antonio, Texas, to Minneapolis, Minnesota. This includes notable concentrations of monuments in the Kansas City, Missouri, area and in northern Oklahoma.
Hugo Villa, German Pioneers of Texas, 1938, New Braunfels, TexasLinda Sioux Henley, Texas Pioneer Woman, 1998, Austin, TexasPatrick Oliphant, Angelina Eberly, 2004, Austin, TexasMike Cunningham, Walking to Texas, 1996, Grapevine, Texas. Photo by David Prescott.Leonard McMurry, Pioneers of 1889, 1959, Oklahoma City, OKPaul Moore, Brand New State / Centennial Land Run Monument, 2007, Oklahoma City, OK. Photo by Anna Prescott.Bill Bennett, Hopes and Dreams, 1993, Perry, Oklahoma. Photo by David Prescott.Bernadette Hess Carman, Land of Hope, 1994, Newkirk, Oklahoma. Photo by David Prescott.Bryant Baker, Pioneer Woman, 1929, Ponca City, OklahomaJo Saylors, This Land is Mine / Centennial Statue, 1993, Ponca City, OklahomaThomas L. Beard, Pioneer Square Monument, Westport, Missouri, 1986Oklahoma Centennial, Ponca City, Oklahoma. Photo by David Prescott.Charles Goslin, Pioneer Woman, Independence, Missouri, 2016Avard T. Fairbanks, Old Oregon Trail, 1924; 2016, Independence, MissouriGus Shafer, Wagon Master, Kansas City, Missouri, 1973A. Phimister Proctor, Pioneer Mother, 1927, Kansas City, MissouriAnna Belle Campbell, Prairie Family, Prairie Village, Kansas, 1951Kwan Wu, Old Santa Fe Trail, 2008, Olathe, KansasKwan Wu, Children of the Trails, 2000, Olathe, KansasDetail of Charles Goslin, Pioneer Crossing, 2006, Shawnee, KansasEllis Luis Burman, The Pioneer Woman, 1935, Lincoln, NebraskaAvard T. Fairbanks, Tragedy at Winter Quarters, 1936, Florence, NebraskaBlair Buswell and Edward Fraughton, Pioneer Courage, 2003, Omaha, NebraskaTom Otterness, Large Covered Wagon, 2004, Omaha, Nebraska(Iowa Pioneer Suffragists), 1936, Des Moines, IowaKarl Gerhardt, Pioneer Statuary Group, 1892, Des Moines, IowaStanley J. Watts, Handcart Pioneers, circa 2000, Coralville, IowaClifford J. Carlson, The Promise of America, 1995, Lake Mills, IowaPaul Fjelde, Mormon Trail Memorial, 1918, Council Bluffs, IowaUnknown, Mormon Handcart Brigade, 1963, Coralville, IowaChristian Peterson, Madonna of the Prairie, 1982, Ames, IowaGordon Shumaker, Pioneer Woman, 1958, St. Paul, Minnesota
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